We have never heard the devil’s side of the story, God wrote all the book.
ANATOLE FRANCESuffering — how divine it is, how misunderstood! We owe to it all that is good in us, all that gives value to life; we owe to it pity, we owe to it courage, we owe to it all the virtues.
More Anatole France Quotes
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It is human nature to think wisely and act in an absurd fashion.
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All ought to be common among friends.
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Of all sexual aberrations, chastity is the strangest.
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All the good writers of confessions, from Augustine onwards, are men who are still a little in love with their sins.
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Without lies, humanity would perish of despair and boredom
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It is the certainty that they possess the truth that makes men cruel.
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It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.
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Nine tenths of education is encouragement.
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Whatever one may do, one is always alone in the world.
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The books that everybody admires are those that nobody reads.
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Science neither cares to please nor to displease. She is inhuman. It is not science but poetry that charms and consoles. And that is why poetry is more necessary than science.
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Our passions are ourselves.
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The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.
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We do not know what to do with this short life, yet we yearn for another that will be eternal.
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To accomplish great things we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.
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